21. Pierre LESSELINE (Caen, about 1720 - about 1773) Portrait of an officer wearing a bicorn and the Order of St. Louis Painted by Lesseline 1768 Oil on canvas Signed and dated on the back of the canvas lower right 73 x 59 cm Pierre LESSELINE is a portraitist from Caen, recently rediscovered notably by the purchase of the presumed portrait of Françoise-Charlotte-Louis Vauquelin de Vrigny (1716-1795) by the Caen Museum of Fine Arts in 2019.

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